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Box Office Collection 24,467,000 USD
According to TV Guide, "In October 1972 an account written by Leonard Greenwood appeared in the Los Angeles Times. It told of a Peruvian engineer whose son had been kidnapped by a band of Indians and of the man's successful search to locate the child. Screenwriter Rospo Pallenberg saw the news item and took it to producer-director John Boorman". The result was this movie.
According to director Sir John Boorman's book "Money Into Light - The Emerald Forest: A Diary" (1985), Boorman's initial choice for the part of the son Tomme was C. Thomas Howell. When Howell was unavailable, John decided to use his own son Charley Boorman for the part.
Powers Boothe almost drowned during the shooting of one sequence where Charley Boorman was assisting Boothe cross a river. Boorman's pleas for assistance were initially interpreted by distant crew personnel as being part of his performance.
The film was "released with native language dialogue" and "became the first feature ever made for U.S. markets in a principal language other than English" according to the book "Picture This!: A Guide to Over 300 Environmentally, Socially, and Politically Relevant Films and Videos" (1992) by Sky Hiatt.
The film is based on real-life events. The picture's under-the-title tagline stated "Based on a true story".
"Bill Markham: Why did you take my son? Wanadi: One day, i was hunting at the Edge of The World when Tomme appeared and he smiled; and even though you were a Termite Child, I had not the heart to send you back to The Dead World. Tomme: Why are they called The Termite People? Wanadi: They come into The World and chew down all the grandfather trees. Just like termites."
"[forest is being destroyed to make way for a dam] Mapi: They are tearing the skin off The World! How will she breathe?"
